OMAHA, Nebraska, March 15 (TNSjou) -- Creighton University issued the following news: Twenty-five years ago, Rick Witmer, PhD, asked a question he is still trying to answer. "It started with me asking one of our professors in grad school, what we knew about this," Witmer recalls. "He said, 'Nothing. Absolutely nothing. You're going to have to go find it out.'" The mystery concerned the number of Native Americans elected to state legislatures, to what extent those who are elected focus on Nati  more

OMAHA, Nebraska, March 16 (TNSres) -- Creighton University issued the following news: For the second consecutive year a Creighton student is a top-three award winner at the BIG EAST Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium held March 11 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The symposium, which held its inaugural event last year, is held in conjunction with the BIG EAST Men's Basketball Tournament. It brings together top undergraduate research students from BIG EAST universities who presen  more

TALLAHASSEE, Florida, March 17 -- Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Florida, issued the following news release on March 16, 2023: Governor Ron DeSantis and the governors of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming formed an alliance to push back against President Biden's environmental, social, corporate governance (ESG) agenda that is destabilizing the American e  more

HASTINGS, Nebraska, March 14 (TNSres) -- Hastings College issued the following news release: Brendan Kachnowski, a 2022 Hastings College graduate and current Master of Arts in Teaching student, presented a paper in early March at the No Limits conference, which was held at the University of Nebraska at Kearney. The No Limits conference is an interdisciplinary undergraduate, graduate or recent graduate conference that explores a wide range of issues related to women, gender and sexuality. In ad  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, March 15 (TNSeco) -- Southeast Community College issued the following news: Construction on the $32.4 million Sandhills Global Technology Center will officially kick off March 22 with a groundbreaking ceremony on the Lincoln Campus of Southeast Community College. The event begins at 11 a.m. just east of the Health Sciences building. A reception is scheduled for Course Ground Coffee inside the new Student and Academic Support Center. Sandhills Global, an information technolo  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, March 15 (TNSjou) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: * * * 'We've discovered a new way that biology works' With the aid of some sea slugs, University of Nebraska-Lincoln chemists have discovered that one of the smallest conceivable tweaks to a biomolecule can elicit one of the grandest conceivable consequences: directing the activation of neurons. * * * Their discovery came from investigating peptides, the short chains of amino  more

LINCOLN, Nebraska, March 14 (TNSres) -- The University of Nebraska Lincoln campus issued the following news release: * * * In utero heat stress of boars is a significant threat to pork production, and a University of Nebraska-Lincoln reproductive physiologist is leading a research team that aims to develop boars that are more genetically tolerant of gestational heat stress. * * * In the United States, about 6 million sows a year produce a litter after exposure to gestational heat stress, a t  more